Where I have been...

1st: Finishing up the last few days of my first year of teaching! Today (fri) was my last day. Next year I will be moving classrooms over to the math hall and teaching full time. I will have two classes of Pre Algebra, 2 classes of Math 7 target, and 2 classes of Pre Algebra target. I am SUPER UPER EXCITED!!! but I will miss my current classroom.

2nd: I'm starting a new blog. My sister and I are going to work on making a cooking/recipe blog. Here is the site - it is still a work in progress, most of the posts are just test posts! If you have any tips of how to change it please email us on the comment page. (I don't know how to make buttons or change the size of the top picture). Enjoy.

www.its-a-keeper.net

3rd: I got a skateboard! Ok well, I just got it today but I'm going to go practice! Adios
KrysJo

New Pictures

Here are some pictures of our wedding day (on the right, in the slide show).

Also, I changed the top to have a picture.

Have a wonderful day!

Love,
Krys and Fil

Spring in Utah

If you know me at all you would know that I really am not a huge fan of Utah. But... we live here so I may as well make the most of it, right? Hence, this is my post to counter-act all those negative feeling of Utah I've had over the last few months!

Thanks to my sister (again) I got to decorate a little for spring. We painted these wood letters in cute bright colors. The yellow twirly should be glued on to the flower, but I wanted to stain them with a very light brown first:

One thing I really do like in Utah is Spring. It doesn't last for very long but it is a very nice time of year. The trees are in bloom for about a week or so. This is a tree outside our apartment taken last night:

Here are the rest of the trees all colorful and pretty:

And finally the best part about spring - it is the beginning of "Summer Provo" as called by me and Fil. It is the wonderful time of year that is not only warm, snowless, and beautiful, but, it is the time of year when all the annoying BYU students are gone! Less traffic, less people screaming in the streets, smaller lines at the stores.

Don't get me wrong, I love my sibs who go to BYU and wish they weren't gone - but all those other students who are loud and annoying... well it's nice to be with out them for a time. Also, I'm secretly teaching my niece to love math!

Here is a little more about me and Felipe... enjoy!

1. What are your middle names? Jo and T.O.

2. How long have you been together? married almost two years... including dating 2.5 years i think?

3. How long did you know each other before you started dating? a few months...

4. Who asked who out? kind of agreed on hanging out

5. Whose siblings do you see the most? Mine

6. Do you have any children together? Nope

7. What about pets? I want a fishy

8. Did you go to the same school? Same college

9. Who is the most sensitive? Me?

10. Where do you eat out most as a couple? On our blue couch... we go get food from all over then come home. Lots of Cafe Rio or Jimmy Johns

11. Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? Cancun for the honeymoon

12. Who has the craziest exes? neither I think...

13. Who has the worst temper? Me

14. Who does the cooking? Mostly me, sometimes Fil when I ask him :)

15. Who is more social? Felipe

16. Who does the dishes? We share, but Felipe is really good at them and I wouldn't let that talent go to waste!

17. Who is the most stubborn? Me

18. Who hogs the bed? Felipe - he sleeps in the middle (or diagonally)

19. Who wakes up earlier? Me

20. Where was your first date? To the movies, and we wandered around Borders

21. Do you get flowers often? I used to until I told him I really don't like them.

22. How long did it take to get serious? Well... a few months after we met, or two days after we started "dating"

23. Who eats more? Depends on what we are eating

24. Who sings better? Felipe did choir... but we both don't really sing much ??

25. Who does the laundry? It is actually pretty equal on this one

26. Who’s better with the computer? Felipe on a PC, me on a Mac

27. Who drives when you are together? For a while it was Felipe, since my wallet was stolen! But I got a new license so I'll be driving lots more very soon...

28. Who picks where you go to dinner? We mostly just throw ideas out there and then decide together

29. Who wears the pants? Me, duh

30. Who has the better sense of humor? Felipe

31. Who eats more sweets? Me

We had plans for Spring Break

So this year was the first year in many years that both Krys and I had a Spring Break and we had made plans to do some things for the break. However, our awesome plans were never to come to fruition. I found out about a month ago that for my Americorps job I had to attend a volunteer conference Tuesday through Thursday [April 6-8] in Salt Lake City. Needless to say I was unhappy with that. Having the conference in the middle of the week ruined any possibility of going hardly anywhere. Needless to say my sarcasm increased twelve-fold during those days. Two days of workshops [some of which put me to sleep] were not what I was looking forward to for a week off from overdosed hormone enriched pubescent adolescents. I'm sorry to many of my family members whom we were unable to visit this week. New plans are being concocted to remedy this lack of visiting. Other than that we wish you a happy Spring.

New Background

My first task of spring break was to find a new background for our blog. The old one seemed winter like or valentines day-like. I just don't know how to change that bar that has the comments on to the right color. Does anyone know how to change that?

Also...What do you think?

Our Trip To Manti

 A few weeks ago we were able to go down to Manti, UT to visit with family and help celebrate Felipe's Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary.

On Sunday, after church, we were able to walk around the grounds of the Manti Temple. It was so fun to take pictures and enjoy the beauty of the Temple.

We really enjoyed spending the weekend (and week before and after) with Felipe's momma!

Good times all around - as you can tell by the awkward picture of Felipe...

We stayed at the "Manti Motel" which was interesting to say the least. The office was also a movie rental store, a pizza restaurant, and an ice cream parlor. The motto of the motel was "Drop your mail in any of our mailboxes and we guarantee postage!" exactly what I imagined a motel motto to be...

If you noticed we totally forgot to get pictures at the wedding anniversary party so...  if anyone has any fun ones we would love to see them, maybe you could email them to us?? Have a great weekend!

Experiencing Utah

This summer I really want to experience all that Utah has to offer. I realized that I may not like Provo, but there are some pretty cool places in Utah to visit. Here are some things that I really want to do as soon as possible:

-Hike to Timp caves
-Hike or mountain bike on trails near Salt Lake
-Bridal Veil Falls
-Zions National Park
-Bryce National Park
-Arches National Park
-take pictures downtown Salt Lake
-Alpine Loop
-the Great Salt Lake (and Antelope Island)
-Price to visit Sally (Felipe's sister)

Is there anything I missed?

March is here!

One thing I really have come to dislike is February. The last few years it seems like I am tortured during the entire month! Let me explain...

If I could wear flip flops all year round I would. As you can imagine, winter in Utah doesn't make that task easy. So I suffer through winter, which generally starts in October. By the time February rolls around I am sick and tired of the cold.

BUT... it is March now!!! Today just felt oh so warm (probably only a few degrees warmer than yesterday). I am ready to go shopping for some flip flops, anyone want to come?!

A Baby! Not for us.....

UPDATE!!! We went and saw Eileen and the baby again today, both are doing very well. The baby is out of the NICU and as of 8pm monday night she will not be attached to any more machines! The baby (still un-named) is SOOOO cute! We both got to hold her but forgot our camera! We took some with Eileen's camera, we will post when we get those pictures.

Well, Eileen had her baby today. And apparently it's my job to update everyone. Eileen is just fine. The baby is good. It was a girl and she is in the NICU. She had meconium in her lungs so that needed to be taken care of. Doctors checked for infections and other stuff and they just wanted to take precautions to make sure the kid will be healthy. Hence, we were not able to take pictures.

Our lives are okay and mostly boring and I can't think of anything to post about us. Sorry. So I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

New Job

So I started a new job today. I will be working Tues nights from 4:30 - 6 pm. I am tutoring the coolest middle schooler here in Provo. It is perfect because I will be able to save up some extra money for some fun things (like my hammock yoga class next week). Don't worry... I'm still teaching at Orem Jr. High.

I haven't heard about next year - if I have a job or not! Hopefully things will work out. If there isn't a job at OJHS most likely they will transfer me within the district.

We are also looking for a place to move in August. That will be part of my summer goal...

Over all things are going great here at the Sanchez house. We are mostly working, eating and sleeping. We both are teaching 4-H this semester. I'm teaching "Dessert Cooking" and Felipe is teaching "Soccer."

That's all the exciting news for us now. More pictures later I promise (Felipe's job is to post about the Jazz v. Blazer game)

Love you all!
Krys and Fil

Here are a couple of pictures. Though the Blazers lost we still had a good time.

Valentines Day Crafts

So I have become creative with the help of my awesomely amazing sister! (ok so mostly she did this with a little help from me). Here are my exciting decorations for the up-coming heart day:

banner that says "be mine!"

the decorated plates that are always in my kitchen (just a little more valentines-y now)

our lovely brown door with some vinyl decorations (it also has hearts all over which didn't make it in the picture)

It isn't much but at least our dull apartment looks a little more exciting now! Happy Heart Day (and long weekend!)
-love-
 The Sanchezi

I am the best wife ever

This whole week I have had a head cold and it started going into my chest yesterday. EVEN though I was sick I still got up and made homemade syrup and waffles for my lovely husband. (mostly because he went to the store to get me some medicine). I used Felipe's mom's recipe for syrup and then added some butter to the bit we used today. It was SOOOO amazing! Anyways after making this amazing food I was thinking maybe I should start a recipe blog. Would anyone read it?

Winter Snow

Let me start by telling you how much I hate and abhor snow. If I could live in flip flops and t-shirts everyday I would, which is not even close to possible in Provo.

Ok - on to the real story. We went to a movie with friends last Friday. When we went in the theater there was not even a flake of snow in the air, but when we came out there was about 3-4 INCHES on our car! In about an hour or so! Well at this time I discovered I may like snow but just because it looks cool in pictures:

Some berries on the tree outside our apartment.
Snow fireworks on a pine tree.

Felipe freezing his buns off posing for a picture (isn't he so handsome?)
The end. I still hate snow and cannot wait for spring, but at least I got some cool pictures!